Top 6 Quotes by Izzeldin Abuelaish

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

Being Free, Essentials, Dignity

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

Tragedy, Defeat, Ends

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011). “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity”, p.212, Bloomsbury Publishing

...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

Hate, May, Fortune

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011). “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity”, p.42, Bloomsbury Publishing

It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

Beautiful, Sunset, Reflection

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

Would Be, Abnormal, Violence